Comprising of 16 tracks, in about the finest way possible, disc one commences with Sneijder’s most recent single, ‘Back Home’. Having notched an 8.5/10 in DJ Mag (“when song and mainline meet, honest-to-goodness magic happens” declared the mag), the Irishman rolls ‘Home’ into an early uplifting ascension. Collectively Cold Blue’s synth-storming ‘Another Life’, ‘Redemption’ from Italian doyen Alessandra Roncone and newcomer Billie Gillies’s thrill-packed ‘Evolve’ send it airborne. Sneijder proceeds to slide recent Giuseppe Ottaviani chart-topper ‘Panama’ between Craig Connelly’s remix of his & Karen Kelly’s ‘Be With You’ and his own firestarting, ‘Resonate’.
Album-exclusive ‘Here Once Again’ sees the mix go up a gear, opening it up into its tougher second act. Stoneface & Terminal’s ‘Mind Games’, Mandy Reid’s ‘Infiltration’, ‘Taipan’ from Renegade System and others orchestrate the floor action before Sneijder’s harmonic, anthemic revision of Ben Gold & Sivan’s ‘Stay’ kisses it off.
From disc 2’s outset, Sneijder drops straight back into a tougher groove. Alex Di Stefano dives ‘Into The Flames’, Shugz explores ‘The Darkside’ and David Forbes produces a ‘Phenomenon’ – each raising its pressure by degrees. Into that slipstream comes another swathe of Sneijder’s own, with his recent rewire of Nick Callaghan’s ‘Kill Jester’ and his team-ups with David Forbes (on ‘Flashback’) & Nick Callaghan (‘Marching Orders’) bringing techier tones. The second mix reaches its dizzying zenith with some weapons-grade gear from O’Callaghan & Kearney’s Key4050 project. ‘Egon’ and ‘Utterly Butterly’ viscerally bookend James Dymond’s bringback of Maria Nayler anthem ‘Angry Skies’ and Simon Patterson/Sam Jones pair-up ‘Rotavator’.
If you’ve not clubbed in LA before, this compilation will all-but secure those credentials for you. Across its 30+ tracks, two or more musical hours and disc deuce, Sneijder musically divines LA to a forensic level. You can pre-order/bookmark ‘Afterdark 002 – Los Angeles, Compiled & Mixed By Sneijder’ here (https://afterdark.choons.at/002-losangeles).
Sneijder – Afterdark 002 [Los Angeles] – tracklist
Disc 01
01. Sneijder – Back Home (Club Mix)
02. Cold Blue – Another Life
03. Alessandra Roncone – Redemption
04. Billie Gillies – Evolve
05. Sneijder – Resonate
06. Giuseppe Ottaviani – Panama
07. Starpicker – Elated
08. Sneijder & Karen Kelly – Be With You (Craig Connelly Remix)
09. Sneijder – Here Once Again
10. Project 8 – Reason I Say This
11. Stoneface & Terminal – Mind Games
12. Renegade System & Ed Lynam – Redux
13. Mandy Reid – Infiltration
14. Manuel Le Saux & Unbeat – EVO
15. Renegade System – Taipan
16. Ben Gold & Sivan – Stay (Sneijder Remix)
Disc 02
01. Sneijder – Violate
02. David Forbes – Phenomenon
03. Shugz – The Darkside
04. Alex Di Stefano – Into The Flames
05. Nick Callaghan – Kill Jester (Sneijder Rework)
06. Sneijder & David Forbes – Flashback
07. Sneijder & Nick Callaghan – Marching Orders
08. Simon Patterson featuring Lucy Pullin – Blink
09. Ashley Bradbury – Sesh Gremlin
10. Sneijder – Break The Silence
11. Dante – Cognitive Behaviour
12. Key4050 – Egon
13. Billy Gillies – Open Your Mind
14. Maria Nayler – Angry Skies (James Dymond Remix)
15. Simon Patterson & Sam Jones – Rotavator (Sam Jones Remix)
16. Iain M – Serotonin
17. Sneijder – Decimate
18. Key4050 – Utterly Butterly
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